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S vs Epithet - What's the difference?

s | epithet |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun epithet is

a term used to characterize a person or thing.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    epithet

    English

    Noun

    {{examples-right, sense=biology: part of scientific name of plants, fungi and bacteria, examples=*In Cannabis sativa'' the word ''sativa is a specific epithet . * In Festuca ovina'' subsp. ''guestphalica'' the word ''guestphalica is an infraspecific epithet .}} (en noun)
  • A term used to characterize a person or thing.
  • A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
  • An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, title=The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity?, author=Eric L. Goldstein
    • , passage=Part of this process was the elaboration of new terms for the Jew, especially the increasingly popular epithet “kike”.}}
  • (biology) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.

    • Synonyms

    * (descriptive substitute) cognomen